Inter al a request on behalf of three Kibi pupils to be taken into Akropong Middle School: Theophil Oforidee - another member of the royal family, but younger, better gifted, with firmer intentions, and less troublesome than Apeawa. Still not a first…
An appreciation of the situation in Akim following the two attempts by Haas to collect more pupils for the school. Much of the discussion is taken up with detailed reactions to Akropong decisions over transfers and the interpretation of Basel…
The report is mostly printed as an annex to the 1872 Annual Report pp130ff. Additional material: The recruitment of scholars for the Kibi School - only one, handed over by the uncle of the ex-Akropong Middle School pupil David Kese. He also proposes…
Reports that he has never seen 'in Africa’ such ailing children as have been sent to school with him - sores right down to the bone and crooked limbs. He has sent for medical equipment with which to go about healing them. About one-third of the…
Their attempts to get more boys for the school from the Okyenhene and his elders are having no effect at all. A boy who came to them by his own free will from Apapam has been taken away after the missionaries refused to pay 27 dollars for him.…
Taking up his own earlier news about the Mohammedans in Akim and Schrenk's mention of them (Annual Report 1871, p76), Lodholz reports their further history. They were based on Kibi, and travelled to the other towns. On their preparation to leave…
Remarks over the repairing of the mission house in Kukurantumi, that Akim shingle roofs seem to last only 8 years or so, while in Akwapim, with the more suitable wood available, they last for 20-30 years. Widmann adds in a subscript that the same…
Statistics — numbers of members of the community 6 (excluding the members of the Asante family). Communicants: 4 Children: 2 Non-communicants: 4 Catechumens: 2 Heathen pupils in the school: 10 Teacher: Samuel Ohene. Travelling has been frustrated by…
During the year a new catechist was posted to the station - William Adow. The Kromers left at the beginning of the year because of health difficulties - Haas was able to marry in November. Both the Lodholz, and Missionary Haas, experienced severe…
A reply to a question sent by the Basel Committee to all missionaries concerning the life of Christian married couples. Concerning the question whether they eat together and pray together, that is difficult to answer from his own observation. It is…
Reports that a controversy between him and his carriers between Kukurantumi and Kibi had come to blows. He had not taken the matter before the Okyenhene, but had been wondering whether he should since it was rumoured that the whole thing was an…
Includes some information on relations between the Okyenhene and the English Government in Cape Coast over the Asante war. In April the Okyenhene was called to Cape Coast to assist in concluding a peace with Asante or at least to send ambassadors…
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